A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
“I know life is not rainbows and butterflies, but I’d rather die delusional than being a mature cynic.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
That name, SUN BEAR, just sounds like an ideogram to me. Super resonant. By the way, this all might be related to… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around.… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend… — Sam Endicott Copy Share Image
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
I'm a very pragmatic soul. I'm part of the business and I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to being… — Jane Anderson Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can… — John Reuben Zappin Copy Share Image
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life.… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here’s my idea of romance: You… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What a cynic would call a coincidence, Amy called a clear answer, and more than an answer--a sign of the love of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Daniel snorted. "You are such a cynic." "You're such a romantic." "Yeah. Isn't diversity grand?” — Kaje Harper Copy Share Image
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature. — Jon Snow Copy Share Image
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? — Eliza Cook Copy Share Image
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.” — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s… — Burton G. Malkiel Copy Share Image
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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